White v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably 39 Cal. 2d 858 - De Burgh v. De Burgh (1952), In Re Estate of Baldwin (1912)
2 federal appellate · 59 state decisions — followed in 15 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hynes v. . McDermott · Caujolle v. . Ferrie · Jones v. Jones · Barnum v. Barnum · Brinkley v. . Brinkley
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The mode of cross-examination was objectionable. It consumed time in doing what was utterly useless in asking the questions as above stated. The court has the power, and should have it, to control the mode of examination of a witness, provided it does not trench on the rights of a party.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Simpson v. Randolph
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.